In my paintings, I am work from a sense or memory
of natural phenomenon. Embracing
Modernist principles that emphasize the primacy of paint and process, I
compose images that balance between suggesting recognizable forms such as land
masses, water, rocks, figures, trees, and presenting purely abstract
formal gesture.
Color is an essential preoccupation to me for it's ability to modulate intensity
and energetic fields.
Breathless at the sight of beauty my whole life, I've rejected the
notion that beauty is suspect and elegance is weakness. Beauty is an
essential element of my paintings; beauty and ugliness, delicacy and
coarseness, grace and clumsiness, share space and create a dynamic
interrelationship that comes alive in the act of viewing.
My present series is entitled "Fields of
Disturbance", and it is based on spherical forms and space.
In previous series, I have worked repeatedly from one photograph or
sketch, attempting to capture over and over something in that space and
time which originally captivated me. My present preoccupations are the
concentration of energy in spherical
forms, the movement of air, breath, form and color through space, often
as that occurs in landscape.When the painting becomes alive and
breathing to me, then it is working. It is a mystical process, one
which endlessly renews itself.
